“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
― Aphorisms
― Aphorisms
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― True Love
― True Love
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
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“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
― The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
― The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
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